Theodore Golubic (December 9, 1928 – November 29, 1998) was an American sculptor and painter. He studied sculpture at the Syracuse University under Ivan Meštrović and eventually became his assistant at Syracuse and Assistant Fellowship to Meštrović at Notre Dame University. He was a guest teacher at Notre Dame and PBS "Art School of the Air." After receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame (under Meštrović). Later in his career he created three-dimensional sculpture to four-dimensional art that involved shadow and light. He is referenced in Who's Who in American Art, exhibited and commissioned both regionally and nationally. As a creative artist, he combined both science and art, and received five US technology patents in semiconductors, one for a three-dimensional packaging design.

Early life and education Ted Golubic was born December 9, 1928, in Lorain, Ohio to Ivan and Illonka Safar Golubic. Ted attended Lorain High School where he graduated on January 2, 1947.

Personal life

Golubic married Rose Ieraci on November 27, 1958. He had four children: Vincivan (Vince), Theodore Eric, Victor Gregory, and Georjia Terese.

Career 1959 Summer Term, Guest Teacher, University of Notre Dame 1960–1962 Draftsman, Redevelopment Department, South Bend, Indiana. Designed and executed all artwork, maps, ownership data and visual aids to assist eligibility criteria for structural buildings 1965–1967 Sculptor Consultant, Rock of Ages Corporation. Consulted in matters of design and carving techniques. Eight bas-reliefs in an exclusive Crypt Series 1969 Fall Teacher, Sculpture and drawing, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO 1970–1971 Teacher, Sculpture and Mixed Media, San Diego Sculptor's Guild 1971–1972 Artist-in-Residence, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico 1972–1996 Motorola Semiconductor, Phoenix, AZ

List of works

Activities in art

1958–1997 Works commissioned/exhibited regionally and nationally (selected list follows) in 3 and 4 dimensional sculpture; teaching, and technological invention*, 1958–1997 GUEST TEACHER, "Art School of the Air" ABC, Ch. 28, Elkhart, Indiana, 1962–63, five 1-hour demonstrations on live television EXPERIMENTAL EXPRESSION: Sun/Time (4D) Dimensional projection-shadow/spectral forms as produced by planetary rotation, 1962 WORK FEATURED, DISCUSSED: Workshop, 28th Annual Conference, American Society for Aesthetics - "Light, Matter and Shadow Dynamics as Produced by Planetary Rotation", Boulder, Colorado, 1970 INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM: "Beli Vencac", Arandjelovac, Yugoslavia. Invited sculptor, 1973 INVENTOR: "Eureka Award" for a Semiconductor Chip Module, 1995; one of five patents for Motorola, SPS: 1974, 1979, 1985, 1989, 1995 TESTAMENT SERIES: work in progress, never completed. St. Peter, St. Paul, David, St. Joseph, 1996–97 SELECTED Juried/Invitational EXHIBITIONS 1955– 3rd Regional Art Exhibition, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, 1955. "Estelle", plaster cast ART USA:58, Madison Square Garden, New York. "Sermon on the Mount (Beatitudes)", mahogany Invitational, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. 1958 134th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1959. "Angel of the Annunciation", marble Annual Faculty Exhibition, Univ. of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1959. "Pegasus", drawing Second Biennial of American Painting and Sculpture, Detroit Inst. of Art (November 1959–January 1960), "Martyrdom of St. Joan", wood burning 155th Annual Exhibition of American Painting & Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. 1960. "Martyrdom of St. Joan", wood burn carving Festival of Religious Arts, 1961. Central Presbyterian Church, Rochester, N.Y. "Martyrdom of St. Joan" wood burn carving Unitarian Society in Fall River, Fall River, MA. 1962. Oracle Amanita and St. Joan accepted but not able to deliver Kalamazoo Institute of Art, 1964. Submitted "Discourse", plaster for bronze One Man Show, CBS television, Channel 22, South Bend, Indiana, sculpture exhibit and discussion of works September 1962 (read 1962 interview to follow) 24th Annual Exhibition, Northern Indiana Art Salon, Hammond, IN. 1967. "Europa", hammered lead repousse, coated for safety Biennial, South Bend Local Art Exhibition, 1967. "Oracle", cast iron (found pieces) 13th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Indiana (March 1967) "Such That Have Windmills in Their Heads (Don Quixote)", cast iron (found pieces) 34th Annual Exhibition, National Sculpture Society, Lever House Gallery, NYC, NY, 1967 "Evening", marble National Competition, Corcoran School of Art, Playground Proposal, 1967. "drawings". Mount Vernon Arts Council, Crafts & Good Design Show, Mount Vernon, Illinois, 1968. "Resurrection and Nativity", mahogany 18th Annual National Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1967 "Resurrection", mahogany, honorable mention 56th Annual National Exhibition, Art Association of Newport, Rhode Island, 1967. "Don Quixote", created of cast iron 3rd Annual Art for Religion, Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1967. "Angel of the Annunciation", marble and "St. Francis", plaster 5th Biennial Michiana Regional Show, South Bend Art Center, 1968. Two works — "Equinoctial Point", marble and "Such That Have Windmills in Their Head" (Don Quixote) created from cast iron 11th Rhode Island Arts Festival, 1969. Submitted "Heliotrimorph", slides return delayed (read letter) Rochester Festival of Religious Art, 1969. Rochester, N.Y. "Nativity", mahogany Mainstreams '69. Submitted "Heliotrimorph", not shown for technical setup needs for lights San Diego Institute. "Evening" and "Resurrection". 6/1970 ART FOR 1970, Southern California Expo, Del Mar, CA. 1970. "Oracle, Bird of Prophecy", of cast iron; Submitted "Discourse", plaster sculpture VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP, "Heliotrimorph" work exhibited and discussed, American Society for Aesthetics, 28th Annual Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1970 First Contemporary International. Chico, CA. 3/1971. Submitted conceptual paper on "Gravity" Museum of New Mexico, 1972. Submitted "Times Color Arrow", acrylic One Man Show, Roswell Museum and Art Center, at Sunspot, New Mexico, 1972. "Sun Touchstone", poured acrylic resin and black marble sand HUD, The National Community Arts Program, 1973: "Times Color Arrow" was accepted for their publication, #120, Pg 25 Mainstreams '74. "Pad-a-Pod", Submitted assemblage of athletic knee pads and foam rubber Dimensions '75. Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Az. "Free-Spirit" - Life/Light: Dimensional Drawing, boxed acrylic proto- form for shadow display, 43½ H × 25½ W Expressions of Faith V, National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary religious Art Work, 1991. A.P. Tell Gallery, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ

Publications (articles, referenced) Vinko Nikolic (Ed.) Croatian Review, Jubilee Edition, Buenos Aires: Vol. 4 (December 1960) pp. 481–484 Francis H. Eterovic and Dominic Spalatin: CROATIA: LAND, PEOPLE, CULTURE, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964), pp 332, 339 Biographical Directory, Francis H. Eterovic (Ed.) DePaul University Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1970, pp. 35–36 Author, Guest Editorial: American Art in Stone, March, 1967 Cover, feature article: "In Art There Is Victory", American Art In Stone, April, 1967 Valeria Hatch, "Westart", (California, November 20, 1970), pg. 3 Quarterly Bulletin, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall, 1971 Ibid Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring, 1972 Dictionary of International Biography, Vol. xi, 1974 "Who's Who in the West", 1984– Biography: "Who's Who in American Art", 1973–1996

Commissions (selected) 1958– CRUCIFIXION CORPUS, bronzed, over life-size, main altar, Little Flower Church, South Bend, IN. 1957 ANGELS IN MOURNING, limestone, 12 life-size figures in high relief, main altar, St. Joseph's Church, Gary IN. 1960 CIRCE, bronze bas-relief for Mrs. H. Fredrick Willkie, Elwood, IN.; Madrid, Spain 1961 MODUnit, a set of 14 Modular tile units offering unlimited combinations in free-form compositional relief, designed exclusively for Cerilean Products Co., South Bend, IN. 1962 ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER, heroic-size, limestone, high relief, St. Joseph the Worker Church, South Bend, IN. 1964 MAUSOLEUM SCULPTURE SERIES, eight bas-reliefs exclusively for Rock of Ages Corp., Barre, VT. 1965–66 NATIVITY, limestone, free-standing high relief for the Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Loras J. Watters, Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, 1967 ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, heroic-size, free-standing bronze, St. John's Church, Lorain, OH. 1967 INVENTOR: Three-Dimensional Interconnected Integrated Circuit for Motorola, Patent 1989. Became derivative for other inventors INVENTOR "Eureka Award", for a Semiconductor Chip Module, 1995; one of 4 earlier patents for Motorola SPS: 1974, 1979, 1985 TESTAMENT SERIES for Mausoleum Project: DAVID, St. PAUL, ST. PETER, ST. JOSEPH (project not completed — Sculptor deceased 11/29/99) Military Service: United States Army Sergeant, Signal Message Chief, 1951–53; Honorably Discharged 7/1959

List of works done at Syracuse or Notre Dame Madonna & Child, 1954–55 (remains at Syracuse University Storage) plaster, made several other models Angel Gabriel, 1954. Plaster sketch Sermon on the Mount in mahogany (Beatitudes), 1954. Shown in FIRST ART USA:58, NYC. for Judy Juhl Foster in Warrensburg, Mo Portrait of Estelle, 1955 Battling Centaur, 1955. Plaster sketch Portrait of Nancy, 1955. plaster Portrait of Stasha, 1955. plaster Portrait of Peggy, 1955. plaster Darlene, portrait and full figure, 1955 Greek Girl (Vassiliky), portrait, cast stone, 1956. Owned by Vince Golubic Egyptian Madonna, 59" high, 1956. Plaster, copper patina St. John, 1956 (Plaster sketch) shown in "Hrvaska Revija" booklet. Copy of issue available. Lazarus, 1956. Plaster sketch Madonna's Head, 1956. Bronze (done at N.D.) 19" high Europa & the Bull, 1956. Hammered lead repousse (coated for safety) done at N.D. 28" high Caryatid (or Winter), 1956. Brazilian rosewood, left over from project ordered by Meštrović for his work. Heavy, over life-size. (also did a plaster Caryatid sketch, 26" 1958) Slave,(Meditation) 1956. Plaster for bronze, over-life size 76" high. (Altered in genital area in 1969). St. John, 1956. Limestone, Bob Mejer at Quincy University may know the whereabouts, possibly given to Professor Sessler, may have been painted Boszko portrait, 1956 Lipathian Maid (Sabine Woman), 1956. Plaster. Was sawed in half to make it into a relief before we left South Bend, in 1969 (renamed Sabine Women) wood frame was put around it. Had been in Lakeville, IN. Portrait of Fr. B. Sauvigny, done at Notre Dame, 1956 Meštrović Portrait, 1956. Done at N.D., no longer available Winged Victory, 1957 Hammered lead repousse, (coated for safety) done at N.D. Penelope (Andromeda), 1957. Plaster, copper patina. 27" high, base 14" × 27" Adolescent Christ, 1957. Plaster, bronzed patina, 62" high. School in Chicago planned purchase to donate it as a present from the graduating class Sphinx (Georgia as Sphinx), 1957. Plaster, bronze patina Discourse, plaster. 1957. 22". Impressionistic modeling Crucifixion Corpus, 1957. Life-size, plaster, for altar at St. Theresa Little Flower Church, South Bend, IN St. John, 1957. Plaster sketches for Des Plaines Mausoleum proposal Angel of Annunciation, 1958. Marble. (Exhibited at ART FOR RELIGION EXHIBIT, Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Indianapolis, IN.) 12" × 14" David, 1958. 16", plaster sketch Evening, 1958. Marble 11½" × 13" St. Paul, 1958. Plaster, copper patina. (Joe Simeri, family friend and lawyer in South Bend who represented Ted for Redevelopment case. Ted then left Redevelopment and went to work for Cerilean Products. My Portrait, 1958. Plaster, made before our wedding. Head of St. John, 1958. Plaster, bronze patina